Today Cortana arrives on Xbox One (for preview members) and I suspect it’s use will be pretty common among their users for two reasons: Many of them were already using Kinects to shout some voice commands, and now that interaction will grow between them, but even more importantly, They will be able to use the feature …

In the coming weeks, Amazon expects to release a smaller, portable version of its voice-activated tabletop Echo speaker, building off the device’s surprise success. In 2014 Amazon surprised us with its Fire TV device: you could push a button at the top of the remote to active a universal voice-search function. In late 2014 there …